Articles by C. Max Magee
May 19, 2011
Is This the Apocalypse? 4
The day has come. Amazon just announced that it is now selling more e-books than physical books, and its ad-infused “Kindle with Special Offers is already the bestselling member of the Kindle family.” Meanwhile, it’s still news when a well-known author publishes an e-book (in this case, Susan Orlean’s new Kindle Single Animalish).
May 18, 2011
Those Brits and Their Book Awards 0
Phillip Roth wins the Man Booker International prize (a lifetime achievement award that’s a recent invention) and one of the judges steps down in protest. “I don’t rate him as a writer at all.”
May 17, 2011
The Chart Artist 0
Ben Greenman, New Yorker editor, author, chart artist? The Observer explains.
May 17, 2011
The Hype Cycle 0
Elif Batuman entertainingly muses on “hype” and resolves to “write five 5-star Amazon reviews this month of books I love by living authors.”
May 17, 2011
Tuesday New Release Day: Sayles, Mieville, Theroux, Habila, Drabble, Donoghue, Cronin 2
The huge, McSweeney’s-published, John Sayles novel A Moment in the Sun has been getting great reviews. It’s now out. Also new this week is China Mieville’s Embassytown, reviewed here today; Paul Theroux’s exploration of the genre of travel writing, The Tao of Travel; prizewinning Nigerian author Helon Habila’s new novel Oil on Water; and A [...]
May 16, 2011
Hitchens on Bin Laden 0
Christopher Hitchens has a new 5,000-word piece out today on Osama bin Laden in Kindle Single form.
